401 Park Drive (née Landmark Center) | Fenway

[ball_square]

Flat Top was such a loss. I still haven’t been to their new space tho. But yeah - that whole tech square area used to be incredible new urbanism to me - so much life - mix of old and new buildings - a great success. Really sad it’s all gone.

It's not all gone, I've worked in Kendall for a decade and it's livelier now than ever IMO. But the gravity has definitely moved away from One Kendall and towards the Red Line stop. I do hope that One Kendall can get some of its old life back soon.

 

[RandomWalk]

The OKS landlord has been very reticent about filling the retail spaces. They have kept it clean and generally covered the vacant windows, but it’s a dead zone.

 

[FK4]

It's not all gone, I've worked in Kendall for a decade and it's livelier now than ever IMO. But the gravity has definitely moved away from One Kendall and towards the Red Line stop. I do hope that One Kendall can get some of its old life back soon.

I just mean that double quadrangle with CBC et al on the lower side and then FTC, Friendly Toast et al on the upper quad. I thought that was called Technology Square as the name of the overall development but guess I was wrong all these years—somehow never knew that is One Kendall! In any case, it was a very cool and concentrated array of commercial establishments, in a somewhat unexpected area. That's what I miss. Glad Kendall more generally is heating up, but I am particularly fond of closed or semi-closed quad spaces that have lots of activity within.

 

[JeffDowntown]

I just mean that double quadrangle with CBC et al on the lower side and then FTC, Friendly Toast et al on the upper quad. I thought that was called Technology Square as the name of the overall development but guess I was wrong all these years—somehow never knew that is One Kendall! In any case, it was a very cool and concentrated array of commercial establishments, in a somewhat unexpected area. That's what I miss. Glad Kendall more generally is heating up, but I am particularly fond of closed or semi-closed quad spaces that have lots of activity within.

The Blue Room was an outstanding Farm to Table restaurant at One Kendall for over 20 years. (1996 to 2017). It added a higher end component to the CBC, Flat Top Johnny's and other offerings.

 

[HenryAlan]

The Blue Room was fantastic and really one of the very first urban restaurants doing farm to table. The new Flat Top Johnny's has a pretty good vibe to it, just not quite the same place, though.